The American Folk Scene: Dimensions of the Folksong Revival
$ 18.00
Author: DAvid A. DeTurk and A. Poulin, Jr
Publisher: Dell 0101
Year: 1967 Print: 1 Cover Price: $.95
Condition: Book Grades. Fine. Like new
Genre: Non Fiction/Music
Pages: 334
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Divided into four sections (folk and the folk arrival; mine enemy, the folksinger - topical-protest songs; Woody and his children: four for our time; folk, rock, cash, and the future), the essays include: Folk and the Folk Arrival, by Sandy Paton; Why Folk Music? by Pete Seeger; Who Invented the Folk? by Stan Steiner; Why I Detest Folk Music, by Robert Reisner; The Folk Music Interchange: Negro and White, by John Cohen; The Singer of Folksongs and his Conscience, by Sam Hinton; The Performance of Folksongs on Recordings, by Robert S. Whitman and Sheldon S. Kagan; "Hootenanny": The Word, its Content and Continuum, by Peter Tamony; Folk Music in the Schools of a Highly Industrialized Society, by Charles Seeger; The Folksong Revival: Cult or Culture? by B.A. Botkin; "Mine Enemy, the Folksinger" by Kenneth Keating; The Position of Songs of Protest in Folk Literature, by John Greenway; Songs of Our Time from the Pages of Broadside Magazine, by Gordon Friesen; P for Protest, by Jon Pankake and Paul Nelson; Topical Songs and Folksinging, 1965, A Symposium; The Topical Song Revolution at Midpoint, by Irwin Silber; Sing a Song of Freedom, by Robert Sherman; Woody Guthrie: The Man, the Land, the Understanding, by John Greenway; The Ballad of Pete Seeger, by Peter Lyon; Sibyl with Guitar ('Time' magazine); Joan Baez - An Interview; Baez and Dylan: A Generation Singing Out, by Richard Farina; Bob Dylan, by John Pankake and Paul Nelson; Highway 61 Revisited, by Irwin Silber and Paul Nelson; I Will Show You Fear in a Handful of Songs, by the editors; Pete's Children: The American Folksong Revival, Pro and Con, by Jon Pankake; Folk Rock: Thunder without Rain, by Josh Dunson; Folk Music and the Success Syndrome, by Irwin Silber; Commercialism and the Folksong Revival, by Ron Radosh; Is Cash Killing Folk Music? by Josh Dunson and Moses Asch; Folksongs, Fakelore, and Cash, by G. Legman; The Future of the Folk Renascence, by Nat Hentof.